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April Term 1801 Edenton District
}Nathan HALL administrator of Malachi VALENTINE
Deceased a soldier in the late Continental Army of the time of this State,
complains of of [sic] Benjamin McCULLOUGH Deceased in custody &c.
Further Cause to wit
for that whereas the said Benjamin to wit on the 1st day of
January in the year 1787 at Halifax. To wit at Edenton in the County
of Chowan & district aforesaid was indebted to the said Malachi
in the sum of ninety nine pounds sixteen shillings & ten pence Current
money, for money he the said Benjamin McCULLOUGH before that time had had and
received to the use of the

Page 2Said Malachi and being so indebted he the said
Benjamin, in consideration thereof afterwards to wit on the same day and year
aforesaid at Halifax to wit at Edenton in the County aforesaid and
District aforesaid ___utook and then and there faithfully pronounced the said
Malachi to pay him the said sum of money when he should be afterwards
thereto Required. Nevertheless the said Benjamin McCULLOUGH in his lifetime,
nor since the death of him the said Benjamin have not paid to the
said Malachi in his lifetime nor to the said Nathan the administrator of the
said Malachi since the death of him the said Malachi the said sum of money
or any part thereof, but have heither to refused and still refuses

Page 3Although after thereunto requested, whereby the said Nathan saith that he is damnified, and hath sustained injury to the value of
two hundred and fifty pounds and he brings into Court here the letters of
administration granted to him in Aug. Term of the worshipful County to wit of
Pleas and Quarter Session of the County of Currituck in the year
1800, which shews that he is the administrator of the said Malachi.
/s/ W. SLADE Plfs. Atto.

PledgesJno DOE Richd ROE

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To the Sheriff Hallifax County, Greeting: You are hereby commanded to summon
Willie JONES
Executor of Benj. McCULLOUGH Dec. (if to be found in your county) so that
you have before the Judges of the superior Court of Law to be held for the
district of Edenton, at the court-house in Edenton, on the sixth day in
April next; then and there to answer to Nathan HALL adm. of Malachi
VALENTINE Decd of a Plea of Trespass on the case &c. to his Damage Two
hundred & fifty pounds Current money. Herein fail not, and have you then and
there this writ. Witness William BLAIR, Clerk of our said court, at Edenton,
the sixth day of October 1800 and in the 25th year of our
Independence. /s/ Will BLAIR Clk

Issued 14th March 1801W. SLADE Atty.

Page 5 M. VALENTINEs adm. } vs
} Benj. McCULLOCHs Exor} And the said Willie JONES, by
Peter BROWNE his attorney, comes & defends the force & injury & says that
the said Benjamin McCULLOCH sometime in the year 1792 or 1793 in the county of Halifax
& State aforesaid died intestate, after whose death administration of
all & singular the goods & chattels rights & credits which were of the said
Benjamin McCULLOCH at the time of his death by the worshipful the Court of
Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Halifax aforesaid to which
the Commission of the administration aforesaid did of right belong during
the February Sessions of the said Court which happened in the year 1793 to
the same Willie JONES in due form of law was committed in which case the
said Willie JONES ought in the said writ to be named administrator of
all & singular the goods & chattels of the said Benjamin McCULLOCH & not
executor of the testament of the said Benjamin McCULLOCH: And this he is ready to
verify: Wherefore he prays judgement of the said writ, & that writ may be
quashed. /s/ Willie JONESP. BROWNE
atty for Deft

The within plea in Abatament was duly sworn before me
this 4th day of April 1801 /s/ Good. DAVISComm. of Affadts
for Halifax
County

that of the goods and chattels, (empty space nothing written) (in your
Bailiwick) you cause to be made the sum of Seven Pounds eighteen shillings &
4 pence which lately in our Superior Court of Law at Edenton, was taxed and
adjudged to the officers of our said Court as the costs and charges of a
suit there brought by Nathan HALL Adm. of Malachi VALENTINE
deceased against Benjamin McCULLOCKs Adm. whereof the said
Benjamin McCULLOCKs convicted and liable as to us appears of record,
besides your own fees for this service. And have you the said monies before
the Judges of our said Court, at Edenton, on the Sixth day of April next,
then and there to render to the said officers for their costs and charges
aforesaid. Herein fail not, and have you then and there this writ. Witness
William BLAIR, Clerk of the said Court, at Edenton, the XIXth
day of October in the XXVIIth year of the Independence of the
said State, Anno Dom. 1802. /s/ Will BLAIR Clk

Clk & Tax

£2

12 shillings

0

Atto

£5

Shff & Cryer

£0

6 shillings

4 pence

£7

18 shillings

4 pence

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To the Sheriff Currituck County, Greeting:
You are here

by commanded, that of the goods and
chattels, of Malachi VALENTINE Deceased in the hands of Nathan
HALL Administrator & of the said Malachi (in your bailiwick)
you cause to be made the sum of Seven Pounds thirteen shillings and four
pence which lately in our Superior Court of Law held for the district of
Edenton, was taxed and adjudged to the officers of our said Court as the
costs and charges of a suit there brought by him against Benjamin
McCULLOCKs Exor Whereof the
said Nathan HALL is convicted and liable as to us appears of record, besides
your own fees for this service. And have you the said monies before the
Judges of the said Court, to be held for the district of Edenton, at the
Court-House in Edenton, on the Sixth day of October next, then and there to
render to the said officers for their costs and charges aforesaid. Herein
fail not, and have you then and there this writ. Witness William BLAIR,
Clerk of the said Court, at Edenton, the XVIIIth day of April in the XXVth
year of the independence of the said State, Anno Dom 1801.
/s/ Will BLAIR Clk